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Abercorn Street is a prominent street in Savannah, Georgia, United States.Located between Drayton Street to the west and Lincoln Street to the east, it runs for about 7.8 miles (12.6 km) from East Bay Street in the north to Harry S. Truman Parkway (State Route 204) in the south.
Abercorn Walk sits across the street from another upscale shopping center, Twelve Oaks du Marché, which opened in 1984 and has a horseshoe shape. This center, anchored by Publix, includes Cold Stone Creamery, Starbucks, and Bonefish Grill among many others. Many locally owned boutiques like Globe Shoe Company have suburban branches at Twelve Oaks.
The Harry S. Truman Parkway is a north–south freeway through the Savannah metropolitan area between Georgia State Route 204 (SR 204; Abercorn Street) and President Street. Originally dubbed the Casey Canal Parkway , due to the parallel waterway, the project was renamed after former President Harry S. Truman in the early 1970s after his death ...
The oldest building on the square is the Owens–Thomas House, at 124 Abercorn Street, which dates 1819. [ 1 ] Upper New Square, as it was originally known, was laid out in 1742 and was later renamed in honor of Georgia founder General James Oglethorpe , although his statue is located in Chippewa Square , to the southwest.
24 Drayton Street (1924) Southwestern trust/civic block. Planters Inn, 29 Abercorn Street (1913) [1] Oliver Sturges House, 27 Abercorn Street (1813) Southwestern residential/tything block. 31–39 Abercorn Street (1920) [1] (The Hunter–Mackay House, 125 East Congress Street [10] – demolished around 1939; a parking garage now occupies the ...
Established in 1733, the city of Savannah was the colonial capital of the Province of Georgia and later the first state capital of Georgia. A strategic port city in the American Revolution and during the American Civil War, Savannah is today an industrial center and an important Atlantic seaport.
At 7:18 a.m. Wednesday morning, the Savannah Police Department (SPD) issued a statement via social media that an investigation was underway into an early-morning June 19 shooting at 14000 Abercorn St.
The portion of the route running along Abercorn Street was previously numbered as State Route 359. In 2020, SR 204 was truncated 2.9-mile (4.7 km) south to a shared end point with SR 21 (DeRenne Avenue). The previous alignment extended north along Abercorn Street through Midtown Savannah to 37th Street.